5. CONSENT AGENDA. . . Matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote of consent. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed and considered separately.

(a) Approve City Council Minutes: State of the City March 27, and Council April 3, and April 5, 2012

(b) Receive and File Board and Commission Minutes:

Airport Commission- January 4, 2012

Park Board- March 5, 2012

Board of Health & Environment-March 13, 2012

(c) Confirm Appointment: Denise Lynn Johnston- Senior Account Clerk

(d) Layoff/Recall: David Shaw- Division of Fire

(e) Proclamations:

Days of Remembrance- April 15-22, 2012

Arbor Day- April 29, 2012

6. MOTION AGENDA

(a) Abolish the Public Safety Sub Committee of Council

7. COUNCIL COMMENTS

II. LEGISLATION

1. Resolution No. R2012-07, a resolution in support of the designation of State Route 42 in WarrenCounty as the “Warren County Veterans Highway”. (2nd Reading)

2. Resolution No. R2012-10, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2012, and to declare an emergency. (Wellfield Protection Fund) (No action requested until May 1, 2012)

3. Ordinance No. O2012-18, an ordinance authorizing the incidental expenditure of public funds in support of the public safety levy being placed on the ballot on behalf of the City in August 2012. (1st Reading)

III. RECESS

Meeting will recess until Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 6:00 P.M. for a joint meeting with Middletown City School Board Members.

Granted, we the people were not permitted to
see exactly what the “substituted” version said, but if I followed the
convoluted explanation correctly, it REMOVED the $500 LIMIT on “the expenditure
of public funds for incidental expenses related to the support of [the public
safety levy]”!!!

This means that we taxpayers can now pay for MORE EXPENSIVE
lunches and dinners than could have been provided to the supporters of the levy
with the $500 cap!!!It also means that
someone can…oh…say…slip a domestic partner a few thousand dollars to design a
campaign flyer in support of the levy!!!

Ya gotta admire how they tried to make it sound like
removing the $500 limit means that they won’t spend anything.Actually, all it did was remove the cap and
make the SKY the LIMIT!!!

Oh, and it “authorizes the nominal use of staff time not to
exceed an average of five hours per week from the effective date of this ordinance
until the date of the election in support of said tax levy”!!!Let’s see…five hours per week, times thirteen
weeks is 65 hours.The Shysters at City
Hall will certainly read this as “five hours per week PER EMPLOYEE”!!!

In round numbers, this will cost the
taxpayers between $750,000 and a MILLION bucks for city employees to campaign for
a PERMANENT
RAISING of the PAYROLL TAX to
1.75%, with NO sunset provision!!!

“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012

And people…don’t be fooled!!!I’ll bet a shiny new dime that one ploy they
will try is to sell this as:

A “continuing levy, of the
FIVE YEAR levy that expires this December 31st”

But make no mistake!!!“Continuing” in this sense means “PERMANENT”!!!“Continuing” in regards to a levy means that
it continues FOREVER, unless there is a successful ballot issue to END
it!!!And I guarantee you that council
will NEVER vote to put an issue on the ballot to end it.The only way that will happen is if the
citizens circulate petitions, get a couple of thousand valid signatures, etc.,
and then vote an end to it.This will
make the increase of the payroll tax to 1.75% PERMANENT!!!Have no doubt about that…so consider it
carefully before you vote!!!

“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012

Don't like the fact that our taxpayer money, used to pay the city employees, is footing the bill to allow city employees to campaign for the levy on our dime. They should do it off hours and on their own time. Slap in the face of the city voters who are against it.

What's with the Mort comment? "I give up"... "I don't care?" Sounds like some frustration of her part. Not going her way perhaps? Again, is this what we're going to get from her.......silence....or.... when she does open her mouth, nothing pertinent comes out of it? Mercy people, how did she get a council seat? Has the woman demonstrated any value at all since taking a council seat? The suggestion of naming Bicentennial Commons after Knight Goodman is the only highlight on her reel so far isn't it? In true council fashion, most everything before her, she has rubber stamped without question, right?

Was told the mikes were on before meeting and it was apparent that this needed to be a quick meeting. Ward one is without a doubt a punch of clueless wonders. Pass something?? I would have never imagined it could be worse than Williams/ Wells but it's beyond. Every so called taxpayer should watch this meeting and ask themselves is this the best we can do?? Good God help us.

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